Welcome to my art blog where I post recent photos of my work and journal about my life as an artist. Although I spent my early childhood in the Catskill Mountains or New York, I now live and work in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is from my early life in the mountains that I developed a love of the natural world which now includes vast prairies and endless skies. My goal is to see and respond to the beauty that I find around me with a paint brush, paint and canvas.

This is one among many recent paintings that are on auction this week. Clicking above takes you to this painting where there will be links to the rest of the gallery and auctions.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

I just finished publishing a little children's book on foraging. All throughout the book are original oil paintings. I borrowed my great niece and a good friend, Charica who modeled for the paintings. I thought I would let you guys know so that you could read it for free today and tomorrow on Kindle. I had a tough time getting the Kindle version to upload my recipe/scrapbook pages. This time it includes the missing recipe/scrapbook pages. My fingers are crossed that it looks ok on your end. On my end it previews the pages on Kindle which looks small to me. Hopefully you can pinch it out so photos are bigger and you can read the words. Let me know if something still needs to be tweaked. If anyone else wants to add a good review, I would sure appreciate it.... and of course I have physical copies of the book at my house so I know they came out great ( they pumped up the color a bit more than my original paintings but still looks fine) so feel free to order those with no worries.

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

So you have an opportunity to read my book in advance of buying it for
your child, I have made it available for free this week for Kindle. On
Amazon this week, Kindle sales are free, any other day Kindle sales are
only $3. I hope you read my little book, enjoy it, buy a copy and
leave me a great review on Amazon. Happy reading.

Step by Step Still Life

Notice, no detail till nearly finished. Start with blocking in main color areas, make sure to cover every inch of the canvas with something. Also notice you don't have to paint everything in in perfect detail. We paint how the eye sees.... When you are looking at one specific thing, everything else looses its detail. I like to pick an area or two where I paint a flower or flowers in well and let the viewer make up the rest with their own eyes. If I paint one cherry blossom well, the viewer now knows that all those other white, flowery things are cherry blossoms, for example.

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These classes are taught demonstration style for those of you who are beginners or those who wish to learn a new style. More advanced students can join the fun with the demo or work independently with help as needed.

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Painting the Impressionist Still Life with Margaret Aycock

The reader will learn how to set up a still life, compose a painting,mix color for lights and shadows,achieve different effects with brushwork and follow the painting process from start to finish. I tried to pack everything I know about painting the still life into this book. Tons of knowledge transfers over to painting portraits and landscape as well. Lots of tips and tricks. This book has over 50 color photos to help my visual learners.

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"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson from "Reflections on a Course in Miracles" My hope is that my painting will be that shining light.